You Design It, They Print It

You don’t have to be a crafter to appreciate Spoonflower.com, a Web site for designing and printing custom fabric. Anyone with a dream and access to the Internet can upload an image, decide how it should be arranged (repeated, centered, tiled, etc.) and have it printed on combed cotton. Although do-it-yourselfers and professional textile designers are flocking to the site — printers at the company’s headquarters in North Carolina are churning out 40 to 60 yards of fabric a day — Stephen Fraser, who founded the site in May with his wife, Kim, and Gart and Anne Davis, said Spoonflower would be in beta, or test, mode until there were more fabric options (upholstery-weight canvas should be available soon, he said).

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Sara D. Davis for The New York Times

Until then, the winner of each “fabric-of-the-week” contest on the site’s blog, written by Ms. Fraser (top, with Ms. Davis seated behind), can be purchased, for seven days, at Spoonflower’s Etsy store (etsy.com). (Girls, above bottom, by Susan Mentrak, was one of last month’s winners; other fabrics designed on the site include Red Spiky Flowers, top, by Jessica Gonacha, and Spirals, center, by Jinjer Markley.) Custom fabric is $18 a yard, or $5 for an eight-by-eight-inch swatch; information: spoonflower.com.